Tag Archives: Maotai
Maotai – a Town of Wine
On our way from the city of Renhuai to Maotai, we could smell the fragrance of wine becoming stronger as we drew nearer. We found wine jars and large wine containers in front of every house on both sides of the road. A local official who accompanies us said that the wine made by households [...]
Wines Drinking
Chinese wines are really not wines in the western sense of the word, since most of them are actually spirits distilled from rice, millet and other grains, herbs and flowers. Tonics are made by mixing various traditional health-giving ingredients into rice- and grain-based wines. Shaoxing is a rice- based wine; the fiery Wuliangye and Maotai [...]
Alcoholic Beverages
Alcohol is a part of Chinese folklore. In modern China, alcohol maintains its important role in folklore, despite many social changes. It still appears at almost all social activities, the most common occasion being birthday parties for seniors, weeding feasts and sacrifice ceremonies in which liquor must be the main drink to show respect and [...]
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